# Formatting date field

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-date-field/137229>\
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**Created:** [February 12, 2005, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-date-field/137229 "2005-02-12T11:17:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-date-field/137229/1 "2005-02-12T11:17:42Z")

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I’m currently using a datefield compinent to assess a window for customers to have work done. Problem is, automatic e-mails generated by my ASP server page look a little bit shoddy when they are received because of the long format of the selectdate variable return:-

> [font=Tahoma]Mon Feb 7 00:00:00 GMT+0000 2005[/font]

Is there an easy way to perform this formatting or would i need to use a string function to substring the field?

P.S. could someone explain how the hell [color=red]substring[/color] and [color=red]substr[/color] are actually used, cos I’m using:-

```auto
 my_var_to=my_to.substring(1,10); 

```

and it keeps on returning undefined.